Celebrate Holi at APT8

On Wednesday 23rd March – the eve of the Holi Festival, we invite visitors to the Queensland Art Gallery at 5pm to celebrate with a special free after-hours viewing and exhibition tour to enjoy the vibrancy and colour of the Indian works in the exhibition Kalpa Vriksha: Contemporary Indigenous and Vernacular Art of India which…

APT8: Kalam Patua’s contemporary storytelling

Kalam Patua is a contemporary exponent of Kalighat painting. He was born into the Patua community of scroll painters and storytellers and subsequently taught himself the Kalighat style, which draws on conventions from West Bengal scrolls and Indian miniature painting. Kalighat painting developed in the vicinity of the Kali temple in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in…